Jihchao

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 日照 (Rìzhào), Wade–Giles romanization: Jih⁴-chao⁴.

Proper noun

Jihchao

1. Alternative form of Rizhao
   • 1963, Victor Purcell, “The reappearance of the Boxers”, in The Boxer Uprising, A Background Study‎^[1], Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page 178:

     In March 1899 three Germans prospecting near Jihchao in southern Shantung were attacked by a mob and narrowly escaped with their lives.

   • 1970, Christopher Hibbert, “Righteous Harmony Boxing”, in The Dragon Wakes: China and the West, 1793-1911‎^[2], Penguin Books, published 1984, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 327:

     The following month, after German troops had burned down two villages and had occupied the town of Jihchao in Shantung as a reprisal for the murder of three German nationals, the Governor of Shantung had been given orders ‘not to be intimidated . . . not to accede unendingly to the aggressive demands of the Germans’; and the Germans had withdrawn.

   • 2003, Keith Laidler, “Self-strengthening”, in The Last Empress: The She-Dragon of China‎^[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 204:

     The first indication of the melon’s new determination to resist further slicing came in March 1899, when three Germans were attacked by villagers near the town of Jihchao in Shandong Province, close to their military base of Kiaochow. Characteristically, German troops responded by immediately invading the area, where they burned two villages and seized Jihchao.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Jihchao.